Galileo inventions pendulum clock

Pendulum Clock

In Aristotelian physics, which was still the predominant way to explain the behavior of bodies near the Earth, a heavy body (that is, one in which the element earth predominated) sought its natural place, the center of the universe.

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The back and forth motion of a heavy body suspended from a rope was therefore not a phenomenon that could explain or illustrate much. It was outside the paradigm.

Galileo was taught Aristotelian physics at the university of Pisa. But he quickly began questioning this approach.

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Where Aristotle had taken a qualitative and verbal approach, Galileo developed a quantitative and mathematical approach. Where the Aristotelians argued that heavier bodies fell faster than lighter ones in the same medium, Galileo, early in his career, came to believe that the difference in speed depended on the densities of the bodies.

Where Aristotelians maintained that in the absence of the resisting force of a medium a body would trave Galileo and the pendulum clock - Royal Holloway, carousel FIQE